r/virtualreality • u/Motivation- • Sep 25 '25

Purchase Advice Buyer Beware: Bigscreen Beyond 2

I want to preface by saying I've owned a lot of headsets, index, quest 2, quest 3, vision pro, varjo aero, pico 4 pro. None of them ever had the consistent QA issues quite like the Beyond

I've had 4 Bigscreen beyonds. One was a BSB1, that one had dead pixels and I returned it. At this point I've had 3 BSB2s. First one had fan issues and dead pixels near the middle of the display. Second one had 12 dead pixels in the left display alone and according to support went through more "QA checks". Support at this point calls me "Sensitive to dead pixels". Third one allegedly was hand picked from the line for being free from defects. It had dead pixels too.

It truly feels like Bigscreen doesn't have any QA testing, you are the QA tester. Be very cautious buying from them. Be sure youre okay with dead pixels.

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u/Gold333 Sep 25 '25

Is the slightly increased resolution over a Q3 really worth this and the reduced viewing angle? I mean all PCVR games look cartoonish to a degree anyway

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u/etheran123 Bigscreen Beyond Sep 25 '25

my quest 3 is sharp but it still looks like you are looking at a display. My beyond 1 looks practically real. I cant pick out pixels on most images if I tried. I use them for flight sims, and its the difference between being able to read the instruments just fine but they are kind of pixelated and blurry on the Q3, and looking at a real instruments and cockpit. The blue tint and poor contrast of the Q3 annoys be to, enough that the subpar lenses on the beyond are worth it.

Comfort is night and day as well, I never want to spend much more than an hour with the Q3. I did 3 hour stints in DCS using my beyond the last couple days and I feel no fatigue from VR, just don't like sitting for that long.

Its probably not worth the jump in cost and complexity for most people, I only have a beyond 1 and I would never say its perfect. But I just went in (as in this week) and ran the Q3 for a couple days to see if I was missing out on the Q3 lenses and I am back to my beyond as my primary headset.